solum

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The upper layers of a soil profile in which topsoil formation occurs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Within a soil profile, a set of related soil horizons that share the same cycle of pedogenic processes.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In Scots law, ground; a piece of ground.

Etymologies

Latin, base, ground.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

From Latin solum ("base, bottom; soil"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

Now, it is a peculiarity of our German language, whenever a statement is made regarding two things, one of which is affirmed while the other is negatived, to add the word solum, 'alone,' to the word 'not' or 'none.'

For this elderly veteran, it is a case of one musician suffering years of mental anguish that interrupted and ended full dedication to a socially useful calling, replaced by solum duty to be the perennial conscience-stricken protester.

Amadeus of Savoy, many bishops having objected against that prince that he had been married, Æneas Sylvius, who was afterwards pope, under the name of Pius II., supported the election of Amadeus in these words: “Non solum qui uxorem habuit, sed uxorem habens, potest assumere” — “Not only may he be made a pope who has been married, but also he who is so.”